hit upon

动词 v.

中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.

To address.

— He hit upon all major concerns during the presentation.
To think of; to discover or invent. idiomatic

— So next day the hunting began. I did not know how to shoot, but I proceeded to learn. And when I had expended some thirty shells for three seals, I decided that the ammunition would be exhausted before I acquired the necessary knowledge. I had used eight shells for lighting fires before I hit upon the device of banking the embers with wet moss, and there remained not over a hundred shells in the box.

hits upon present,singular,third-person hitting upon participle,present hit upon participle,past hit upon past